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In the ‘80s, David Coverdale seemed to have two overarching concerns — sex and the blues (and maybe Aquanet, which would make three). Whitesnake’s music had always had something of a blues base, though fed through large amplifiers and played...

When Rhino put together its calendar for the month of July, we’d made a point of saving a spot on July 11 to celebrate the birthday of Tab Hunter with a Deep Dive column, spotlighting the three albums we’ve got...

49 years ago today, David Bowie released a single which – even with the size and breadth of his discography over the course of his life and times as a recording artist – remains one of the signature moments of...

While we continue to wait for scientists to crack the nut that is time travel, there’s still a way that we can be transported through the mists of time to the 1980s, and that’s through the power of music. As...

Today we celebrate the birthday of John Anthony Gillis, a man who subsequently married a young lady named Megan White, decided to reverse marital tradition and take his wife’s last name, and subsequently became a huge rock star. Oh, right,...

41 years ago today, Elvis Costello officially submitted his walking papers to the factory where he’d been holding gainful employment in order to pursue rock ‘n’ roll full-time a move which was not only best possible career move that he...

20 years ago this week – on July 7, to be precise – Barenaked Ladies released their fourth studio album, otherwise known as the LP which provided them with their biggest hit single to date. Produced by the band with...

Today we celebrate the birthday of self-described “folkabilly” singer Nanci Griffith, and we do so by diving deep into her catalog and saying a few words about one of her albums that might have flown under your radar: FLYER, which...

Prior to recording the first of their two 1976 albums, A TRICK OF THE TALE, Genesis decided that their drummer, Phil Collins, was the ideal candidate to take over for Peter Gabriel as lead singer — something that must have...